Vicky Krieps is a rebel at heart and plays one—corset and all—in ‘Corsage.’
, Austria’s Oscar entry, when she pauses on a selfie. “This is when I climbed on a tree,” she says. During breaks from playing the 19th-century Empress Elisabeth of Austria, otherwise known as Sisi, she would zip up a red onesie over her corset and climb a tree. I ask how she was even able to do that in the restrictive garment. “If you have a big need, you get everything done,” she says. “I just needed to.
On a frigid December day, Krieps and I meet at Balthazar in Covent Garden, which is loud with patrons and alight with Christmas decorations at 10:45 a.m. Over almost comically large bowls of café au lait like Krieps’s grandmother would drink, it’s an appropriate location to discuss Sisi, still an icon in Europe. Krieps’s conservative neighbors growing up used to watch Romy Schneider’s trilogy films about the empress every Christmas.
Krieps had a “beautiful, hippie childhood” where she was “always naked in the garden.” Her mother taught her how to climb trees—trees are a recurring theme throughout our conversation—and that she didn’t need to wear makeup. And then, she entered the rest of the world, where she was told to conform or no one would go to the movie theater with her. At 14, her heart broke while reading a biography of Sisi by Brigitte Hamann, a reminder of her own rude awakening when she reached adolescence.
On set, Krieps, typically an “overly social person,” isolated herself from the rest of the cast and crew to embody Sisi’s status. But she kept her mischievous impulses with her too. Every morning before filming, she would close her eyes and imagine the empress on her right and Romy Schneider on her left. “I said, ‘Now I take you to the playground,’” she says.
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